Network Security

Welcome to our security bulletin for November 2002;

CCS currently identifies all tha following threats as low risk:
Readers should be aware that this status can change and if they are running mission critical applications even low risk threats are significant

Sophos Anti virus report:
4 November 2002 W32/Braid-A Aliases: PE_BRID At the time of writing Sophos has received no reports from users affected by this worm. More information about W32/Braid-A can be found at http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32braida.html

1 November 2002 At the time of writing Sophos has received just one report of this worm from the wild. More information about W32/Oror-B can be found at http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32ororb.html

Symantec anti-virus report "Latest Threats"
1 November 2002 Backdoor.Floodnet is a backdoor Trojan that gives an attacker unauthorized access to the computer on which it is installed. By default it opens port 6969 on the infected computer. The Trojan attempts to disable some antivirus and firewall programs by terminating their active processes. More info is available at http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.floodnet.html

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